Atiku calls for legislations to promote girl education

Former Vice President of Nigeria and All People Congress APC, chieftain, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has advocated for legislations and incentives to promote girl child education in Nigeria.

This is as the Turaki Adamawa called for the abolition of practices which jeopardize the educational interest of the girl child in the country.

Atiku, who made these comments on his Facebook page to mark International Day of the Girl Child yesterday, said promotion of equal socioeconomic opportunities will spur the girl child to maximize her full potentials.

“Let us talk solutions for improving education access for girls in Nigeria. #DayoftheGirl.
1. Legislation to promote girl child education. Compulsory enrollment is critical.
2. Abolition of practices which jeopardize the educational interests of the girl child and enforcing these laws. 3. Providing incentives for enrollment of girls, to ensure girls are kept in school. 4. Promotion of equal socio economic opportunities to spur girls into maximizing their full potentials.
5. The enlightened ones among us must lead by example by educating their daughters. This will encourage others to do same.
When we give our girls the opportunity of education we are laying the foundation for better societies, and in turn a better nation”, he wrote.

Recall that Nigeria joined the rest of the world to mark International Day of the Girl Child yesterday with this year’s theme tagged: The power of Adolescent Girl: Vision 2030

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